Pooja Dang is an Executive and Career Coach specializing in helping her clients to design and build a career they love with the help of customized coaching sessions and straight up, no nonsense advice. Are YOU ready to reinvent yourself? Let’s get started!

Author: Pooja Dang

A few days ago, I came across my old journal in which I had made a list of goals or principles if you will, that I want to live my life by. The awesome part? I have created a life that incorporates every one of them! Now it’s your turn.
What’s on YOUR list?
The goal is to:
Be ME
Live life on my terms
Do more of what I love and less of what I don’t
Do work that’s meaningful and...

Last week, you learnt how to create the most effective to-do list ever. If you missed it, you can read the post again here.
Since life isn’t just about productivity, I want to take your to-do list a step further. What if I showed you how you can be productive AND happy with everything you’re doing?
Take this scenario: You frequently find that you do not feel like doing the items on your to-do list. What’s the solution? You suck it up...

I’m a big fan of to-do lists. In fact, that’s pretty much how I get most things done in my life and stay productive. I get an immense feeling of satisfaction from checking things off of my list. I am, in fact, also one of those people that will put down a task on the list even AFTER I have completed it so I get the satisfaction of checking it off!
For many people though, to-do lists simply do not work....

As some of you may know, for the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a new project called ‘The Life Checkup’. In essence, it’s a checkup for your life (much like a physical with your doc) designed to get you out of autopilot mode, identify where you are and help you reset to where you want to go.
Well about 3 weeks ago, I was done with my project – the assessment, the website, the intro video –...

Are you stuck? Do you feel like you are way too busy but still feel like you’re not really getting anything done? Do you ever ask yourself:
Where am I heading?
Why is this so hard?
Why am I even doing this?
Do I have good news for you! The perfect solution to your problem.
Say hello to The Life Checkup – the ‘physical for your life’. A simple but highly effective program designed to get you unstuck and help you figure out exactly what’s...

As a life coach in the bay area, I’m super lucky to work with people from a lot of different backgrounds including musicians, artists, entrepreneurs and other creatives.
I love being surrounded by such a diverse group of people – they elevate my life by reminding me that there is so much to learn. I never cease to be amazed by where I can find inspiration.
Case in point, this latest site that a client of mine told me...

Ask people what they most want to improve in their lives and the number 1 answer you get?
Be more productive.
It’s the key to everything. If you can be 10% faster at getting everything done, you have 10% to do something else.
But why is it so hard to be productive? There are more tools at our disposal than ever before. Shouldn’t they be making life easier?
Experience shows, that in fact the opposite is happening. People are having...

Are you frustrated? Tired of doing the same thing over and over? Or may be you are faced with an unplanned change; a lay-off, restructuring or even the end of a relationship.
It’s understandable to panic, go into a shell, or wallow in unhappiness, but the truth is, there is also an opportunity here. An opportunity for new beginnings.
If you’re unhappy with an aspect of your life, or even if you just feel a slight stirring to do something different,...

I am excellent at execution. Give me a plan I believe in and I will make it happen no matter what. In fact, I pride myself on being able to get something done especially when it seems impossible (completing a Whole30 diet challenge while my kitchen was being remodeled is an example of this).
The trouble with being a great doer is that you’re always looking for someone else to plan the solution for you. So what do...

I just listened to a podcast on the principles of training for muscle growth. The first is the principle of ‘specificity’. In essence, the point was that simply training is not good enough. If your most important goal is to put on muscle, then when you train, every single thing you do in the gym, has to be answering the question “is this getting me jacked?”.
This got me thinking about the application of this principle to everyday...